Example sentences of "a [adj] weeks " in BNC.
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| 31 | Until a few weeks ago you were jumping with passion . |
| 32 | Within a few weeks of their meeting , England was at war . |
| 33 | Over the years you get called all kinds of things , but a few weeks ago I reached new heights . |
| 34 | OUT OF the throng of Tibetan pilgrims on the sacred Barkhor street in Lhasa a few weeks ago emerged six young women in maroon gowns and bare heads . |
| 35 | THE Director of Public Prosecutions , Mr Allan Green , QC , is expected to decide within a few weeks whether to press corporate manslaughter charges against British Rail , the Crown Prosecution Service said yesterday . |
| 36 | THE young man filmed in the early hours of yesterday delightedly taking a pick-axe to the top of the Berlin Wall was a potent symbol of the destruction of 28 years of affront to freedom and of the potential dismantling of the system presided over until only a few weeks ago by its architect , Mr Erich Honecker . |
| 37 | A few weeks after the first officials went into the remote poppy valley , the charity began receiving visits from Pakistani and Afghan tribesmen and landlords demanding large sums in ‘ compensation ’ . |
| 38 | The analyst can not hope to understand the business as well in a few weeks as the user does after many years . |
| 39 | He argues : ‘ I have little doubt that on average we will see a premium of about a third , but it could take a few weeks to get there . |
| 40 | DR Gregor Gysi , East Germany 's new Communist party ( SED ) chairman , was shunned as a dangerous idealist reformer by the country 's discredited leaders only a few weeks ago . |
| 41 | A few weeks , sometimes only a few days after a major disaster or tragedy — Hillsborough , Piper Alpha or Zeebrugge — there 's bound to be a gag about it . |
| 42 | Logically , within a few weeks , he also began declaring that ‘ the Communist movement can no longer be led by any centre ’ . |
| 43 | A few weeks later , the Streatham area organiser phoned . |
| 44 | ‘ Is there a potential on the Earth now , ’ Tooley asked , ‘ for catastrophic , subglacial floods raising sea level by 23cm in a few weeks or several metres in a few years ? ’ |
| 45 | One of these was Lynn Bari , who has typically had to wait a few weeks after her death before receiving an obituary due her . |
| 46 | Other ITV stations will closely scrutinise the small print when further details are released in a few weeks . |
| 47 | Other ITV stations will closely scrutinise the small print when further details are released in a few weeks . |
| 48 | I remember there was a period when no-one was speaking to anyone and I recall going to the island of Mustique and being there a few weeks just before the final split . |
| 49 | Korea 's Samsung will start doing so in a few weeks . |
| 50 | Her favourite Isabella ( later demoted to ‘ Lady in a Turban ’ ) was snapped up for the museum in 1896 , a few weeks before one of Berenson 's best finds , a Rembrandt self-portrait . |
| 51 | The president tried to soothe the unions by promising that , as inflation drops to zero in a few weeks , real pay will increase . |
| 52 | In the space of a few weeks they went from favouring broadly no change in taxation ( which is what the chancellor gave them ) to yearning for the rod — in one case a tax rise of £5 billion-10 billion . |
| 53 | Food importers said supermarkets were stockpiling tinned supplies and gave warning that there would be shortages of pilchards and corned beef within a few weeks . |
| 54 | The managers refused to believe the word of a physicist who inspected the plant , and who was to die of radiation sickness a few weeks later . |
| 55 | In the event , the most important repercussion of the appointment was to deprive Kent of the championship , for it proved such a traumatic time for Cowdrey that his team lost their way for a few weeks , and missed the title by just one agonizing point . |
| 56 | He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election . |
| 57 | He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election . |
| 58 | A few weeks later when it came to the 1985 Budget , Nigel set himself the same goal . |
| 59 | I heard a few weeks ago of the formation of an American group called ‘ Fundamentalists Anonymous ’ . |
| 60 | This was the ‘ phoney war ’ period and everyone drank to peace in a few weeks . |